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Erol Kavas
Erol Kavas
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Erol Kavas

Erol Kavas has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, with 10 years dedicated to infrastructure, the cloud, and DevOps. He has helped many Canadian and US enterprises and governments to build their cloud foundations and embark upon their containerization and Kubernetes journeys. He is fully certified on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes in all disciplines. He is a partner and chief consultant in a DevOps and cloud consulting firm that helps Canadian and US start-ups in their cloud and DevOps journeys. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) regional lead for Canada and trains many new cloud professionals at CloudCamp.
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How to install Terraform

To get started with Terraform, it’s important to understand how to properly install and manage the Terraform installation. Installing Terraform can be challenging, but there are many online resources available to guide you through the process, including the official Terraform documentation. Terraform is distributed as a binary package by HashiCorp, and it can also be installed using popular package managers. Installing Terraform is the first step to creating your first project on Terraform.

Let’s go over different installation methods next.

Manual installation

For manual installation, you have the choice of downloading a pre-compiled binary from the Terraform Downloads page, or compiling a binary from the source.

Pre-compiled binary

To install Terraform, you need to download the correct package for your operating system in the form of a ZIP archive. The appropriate package can be found by selecting your operating system on the Terraform...

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Erol Kavas

Erol Kavas has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, with 10 years dedicated to infrastructure, the cloud, and DevOps. He has helped many Canadian and US enterprises and governments to build their cloud foundations and embark upon their containerization and Kubernetes journeys. He is fully certified on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Kubernetes in all disciplines. He is a partner and chief consultant in a DevOps and cloud consulting firm that helps Canadian and US start-ups in their cloud and DevOps journeys. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) regional lead for Canada and trains many new cloud professionals at CloudCamp.
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